Try not to get your ass told again.

can't wait to see a pic of a Gshock hovering over a pile of feces
would match the OP pic perfectly

Oh, you want a Rolex? How delightfully cliché. You and every middle-manager, crypto bro, and influencer who thinks polished Swiss steel is a substitute for a personality.

If you think you can just saunter into an Authorized Dealer (AD), slap down a credit card, and walk out with a Submariner like you’re buying sneakers, wake up.

In 2026, the luxury watch market is an ecosystem of pure humiliation. Here is the blunt, cynical reality. You have two choices:

Route 1:

The Authorized Dealer (The Humiliation Route)
This is for masochists who want to pay retail price (MSRP) and are willing to sacrifice their dignity.

1. The "Exhibition Only" Mirage: You visit the boutique. The watches are gleaming, but they are "For Exhibition Only." They are real, but they are not for you. They exist purely to taunt you.

2. The Mythical "Waitlist": There is no chronological waitlist. It is a CRM database sorted by how much money you’ve already burned in their store. Want a Daytona? The wait is "infinity."

3. The Spend History Extortion: To get "The Call" for a $10,000 steel watch, you must first spend $30,000 on ugly diamond necklaces, hideous Tudor models, or gold dress watches that depreciate instantly. You are paying a ransom in installments.

4. Courting the Gatekeeper: You must visit periodically, bring them coffee, and pretend to care about their kid’s soccer game. You need a "milestone"—a wedding, a promotion, a vasectomy—to justify them granting you the privilege of spending ten grand.

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Route 2:

The Grey Market (The Extortion Route)

Don't want to play the kissing-the-ring game?

Welcome to the Grey Market for the impatient and wealthy.

1. Accept the Financial Ass-Kicking:

You skip the AD. The watch is real and on your wrist tomorrow, but you pay the "Impatient Tax." A $15,000 Daytona goes for north of $25,000 here. You pay a 100% markup to avoid talking to a guy named Jean-Pierre.

2. Paranoia:

Buy from some guy on a forum to save $500? Congratulations, you just bought a clone with a Chinese movement. You have to buy from a reputable grey dealer, funding their vacation home instead of the AD's.

Choose your poison: spend two years groveling to a retail worker, or get financially fleeced by a guy in Miami wearing a tight polo shirt.

Enjoy your stay.

>>18714605
Route 3:
Get a San Martin and forget about watches.

just buy a replica dumbass

>>18714605
For an Explorer, the grey market was just 1K over retail for me, and it was in 2022 or so.
Just don't live in the US.

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I'm a parsley and diamonds kind of guy.

It's one thing to laugh at or dismiss the Rolex true believer geeks. But all these tirades about cuck chairs and ADs is a bit much.
San Martins are pretty great though.

>>18714612
>I feel this with my $300 and $400 watches too. >And also certain $80 watches. I think they just make watches really well now at every price point. I sleep with them and I don't even know they're on. I have a bronze one that's light as air. Sometimes I can't even SEE it.

A lot of people are saying this and it is a good thing.

>>18714621
Well yeah. I guess it balances out the "every scratch tells a story" that you get... elsewhere.

>>18714620
What a charming green watch

>>18714620
Very ummm, tasteful.

>>18714620
Any basil watches?

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Honestly if your watch isn't
>100m water resistant
>Has a Perpetual Calendar
>Is legible in any light condition without warming it up with a literal flashlight
>Has a minimum 10 year service life before service is needed in any condition
>Is a world timer / GMT / multiple time zones / dual time
>Is a chronograph
>Has a CDT
>alarms
>Accurate above COSC levels
>and MAYBE some very specific other features
Then I'm not interested in what you have to say about horology. Or anything else really.

>>18714650
Exactly.

scalpers have bought all the coke-casio watches
gg

>>18714650
Okay this is based.

>>18714654
Are we supposed to be surprised? Was it not supposed to happen?

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>>18714650
Let's settle this once and for all. Is this an analog or a digital display?

>>18714661
It's digital. It displays the time in discrete, separate intervals and not in a continuous, smooth way.

>>18714654
how did you find this out? are people talking aobut it somehwere else?
did you watn the coke casio?
and do you own a few casios already?

>>18714661
that is actually a digital rendition of an analog exposition of time in a watch

>>18714650
That's really ugly though. If you're worried about the "functionality" meme, just get a smartwatch. They have even more totally super useful features and don't look like something that only a ten year old might think looks cool.

>>18714666
So is it an analog or a digital display?

>>18714672
It's a digital display of an analog display lols.
technically, it is digital.

>>18714670
>just get a smartwatch.
battery life: 24 hours

>>18714675
not only that. But the notifications can be nasty. And having to download shit or deal with wonky menus and stuff like that.
I like my casio's for what they are, functional tools that hit a certain niche. Less internet. More living.

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>>18714664
>>18714661
>>18714666
>>18714674


No, it's not digital because there are not digits. It's analog.

And those old card clocks that sit on your desk and flip to the next time, those are digital even though they have no electronic parts.

People just associate quartz and LCD as 'digital', even though it isn't always.

It's right in the definition of the word.
Some are both analog and digital at the same time like this one. Others have a physical clock and also a digital readout.

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This is something I've been wanting but waiting for it to exist. Looks like a regular watch but it has a hidden display that pops up on the crystal when you want it.
It has a vibration alarm to wake you, but none of the smartwatch functionalities I don't want. And in this case I would pay more to get it from another brand. I like Berny and have a few, but the name is dorky. They need to switch to their logo instead.

Seems like they probably stole this from another company anyway. I just don't want to pay over $100 for such a watch.

>>18714704
This is $50 BTW
I guess I'll just get it because it would be for sleeping anyway. I hope they catch on and I have more options in the future.

>>18714704
That's literally just the Tissot T-Touch aka the Tissot What If The G Shock Fucking Sucked

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>>18714670
I will always think a smartwatch is uglier than anything else just because of what it represents.

And I hope the ten year old in me that likes Casios NEVER dies.
These Ironman Timexes were also cool as hell and everywhere when I was ten and I still want one.
And the G-Shock with the big ass sensor on the side was every kid's grail watch in the early 90s.

>>18714709
Ah, of course. So I can't get it for under $100 then. lol, Tissot. I don't need the Swiss for the part of that watch I want. China is juuuussst fine for buzzing my wrist when it's time to get up.

What’s the most classic size for the Cartier Tank? And I mean the kind of Tank Mastroianni and Delon would wear.

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>>18714716
Do we have to go through this every thread?

I'm just going to post tanks I like since I'm not ever getting a Cartier.

>>18714713
that ironman timex mogs luxury watches

>>18714717
I just asked about the size. You can’t even post questions in these turd-dumpsters?

>>18714666
>that is actually a digital rendition of an analog exposition of time in a watch
Yep. This is the correct answer.

>The term ‘digital’ derives from the Latin ‘digitus’ (finger). In its technological sense, the etymological path passed through the English word ‘digit’, meaning number. Since counting was anciently done using the fingers, the word came to refer to whole numbers and, ultimately, to the numerical data processing system.

>>18714700
actually it is a digital rendition of an analog exposition.

but I'm talking about technical mechanics and you're talking about pure horology

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>>18714713
What did he know?

reading watch blogs feels like remnants of the old internet, in a way

>>18714713
>Gets a reissue because Jocko shilled it
>100bux+
>Worse quartz drift than a mechanical
what did timex mean by this?

>>18714716
> What’s the most classic size for the Cartier Tank?
In the 1960’s, the two sizes for men (assuming it’s the Tank Louis and not a variant) would be 25mm x 30mm or 25.5mm x 33.5mm (called the Jumbo back then, called Medium today)

>>18714752
(Correction). 23mm x 30mm

>>18714720
But LED "hands" are not digits. Therefore if it looks like a clock, it's not digital.

>>18714722
And you're talking semantics because "digital" has I guess come to mean something else over time in your mind.

>>18714719
There's been a guy with a broken Cartier trying to move the conversation towards those almost every thread for a couple weeks. He specifically cites people who used to wear them and how that was the style and should be again and on and on.

>>18714756
He left and stopped posting a couple weeks ago. (He threatened to come back in a couple months)

>>18714755
>come to mean something else over time in your mind.
Nope, the definition is crystal clear. From an etymological connection exclusively with digits, the word has come to refer to the processing system based on numerical data. A mechanical thing, that relies on gears and physical movement, is by the entire world referred to as analog. A thing that uses digits, i.e. digital (numerical) inputs to work, is universally considered digital. Casio makes digital watches. Rolex makes analog watches. Yours is autism.

>>18714756
Thank God I don’t frequent these nasty public toilets for subhumans.

>>18714761
>digital, numerical

How the fuck can a watch with two hands and no numbers be digital in any way?

>>18714755
Ok so you don't think it is a digital rendition of an analog exposition of time in a watch?

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Ana-digi time

>>18714773
that one does have an interesting design.

>>18714762
>Thank God I don’t frequent these nasty public toilets for subhumans.
Well, if you don't frequent them, you've definitely learned the local lingo quickly.

>>18714773
When I was a kid those seemed like the coolest watches ever. You get to watch that seconds subdial all the time.
What do those cost now? I may as well get it like I do every other retro doodad I can now, as an adult with money, acquire.

>>18714766
It’s how the quartz movement works.

>>18714791
Numberless digital. What an oxymoron.

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>>18714773

I'm getting it.

They really do refer to their watches as 'pepsi' and 'starbucks'. We need to punish these goyim.

>>18714800
>batman
>bruce wayne
>cookie monster
cringiest shit imaginable

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>pic

>Rolex still living rent-free in the minds of seething poorfags.

>>18714804
Hey I will continue to discuss Rolex as much as I wish to and I understand you're going to assume I'm poor and I'm seething and that's okay. You can go about doing what it is you wish to do and I will discuss Rolex in the watch thread that is about watches and such. Rolex as it is right now, and the market, and the customers, all combine to make an interesting case study, imo. As I said, I shall continue to discuss Rolex in the watch thread because that is what I want to do and I am going to continue to do what I want to do which is discussing Rolex in the watch thread, which is a thread for discussing watches and watch brands and things related to watches and watch brands.

>>18714804
all I need is a rolex sub, nothing more, nothing less
until then, my phone
or a casio
not sure

>>18714800
the goyim mind cannot function without corporate references

I can't imagine how much money this kid has spent on "alpha male grindset mindset" courses.

>>18714802
It carries an energy that is Disney-esque, in the Disney-adult sense.

Everyone should only say nice things about Rolex. The reason is because any criticism of Rolex causes severe psychological damage to people who have built their entire identity around Rolex (and the ownership of a watch). It's catastrophic to them. Any critique of Rolex is, functionally, the same as a direct critique on their personal identity.

No one should say nice anything but bad things about Rolex. The reason is because anything other than unhinged criticism of Rolex causes severe psychological damage to people who have built their entire identity around hating. It's catastrophic to them. Anything other than blistering critique of Rolex is, functionally, the same as a direct critique on their personal identity.

This is strange as wrist watches, in many ways, have intense links to the military. Also, intense links to enterprising activities of discovery in such a manner that often required sacrifice of comfort, the intense drive to overcome challenges, and a genuine curiosity about life. This is what has always been the core energy of wrist watches. Not many talk about mountains, or oceans, or the stars, or such - that aspect has fallen away now - and what we're left with are starbucks, cookiemonster, pepsi, and batman.

>>18714802
This.

>>18714812
lol, it really does, doesn't it

Just a heads up but there's a watch thread on LGBT rn and Grand Seiko guy posted in it. Just sayin'. Hopefully he's just gay and not into transgender monsters. Regardless I do like Seiko 5s.
Ok, that's all carry on.

>>18714825
KEK you fags started invading other boards, are you for real?

>>43801054

totally obsessed

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>>18714591
luv me salmon dial
luv me 2824-2 COSC edition
luv me straps
simple as

>>18714834
is it KOFE TIME?!

So, why did you fags report the other thread?

>>18714825
>heads up but there's a watch thread on LGBT
What a direct way to out yourself as a submissive faggot lol.

>>18714734
The backlight/indiglo on these Ironman re-issues is also terrible btw. I knew about the issue before buying it, but I expected it to last more than a year.

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>>18714650
Honestly if your watch isn't
>shitter
Then I'm not interested in what you have to say about horology. Or anything else really.

"After that any gains would be minimal and really expensive, like reengineering the canon pinion and register pinions to below profile and using extremely thin hands, using a printed dial instead of applied indices, using a thinner dial plate. All those might net another half millimeter but they’d cost a ton."

They should do that

>>18714844
This guy is incredibly unique

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Only cool watches.

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>>18714621
Nobody was even saying san martins are bad watches.

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>>18714844
I posted that image 3 years ago, time does indeed fly

>>18714846
>They should do that

Those changes wouldn't be free. Then you'd get the same people screeching that 13.1mm is too thick howling
>10,000 for a TUDOR? What the FUCK are they thinking?!

Compare it to other chronographs in that price point and you just can't get a thin chronograph. The Longines Spirit Flyback is 13.4 and it's not even automatic. Sure, the Daytona is thinner, as are some JLC chronos and some Zenith chronos (although, if you want the water resistance, even the Zenith is now 13.6mm)

The REAL lesson here is to not buy cheap chronos.

It's like with cars: fast, cheap, well-made; you can at most have two.

>>18714879
The entire reason to move up market for chronographs is the proportion, that's true. The price point for the watch in the new case might sell me on it though, because if it's relatively cheap by luxury watch standards 13mm thick for an automatic chronograph under 40mm diameter is still pretty good. The daytona, the king, is a little over 12mm in most generations, the equivalent zenith chronos are a little thicker than those, so 13mm isn't a giant jump up.

>>18714851
That's my style right there

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About to pull the trigger on this watch, the seller has good reviews though a red flag is its in Indonesia. Should I be concerned? Anything else to consider? Its not like hes just selling this one watch he seems to have a good inventory
https://www.ebay.com/itm/198396744891

>wear a plastic toy watch
>strap breaks
how do u cope

>>18714917
If you're in the US, did you factor the import fees into the price? I hate buying international because shit always gets held up in customs.

>>18714917
>dumb childish reddit X on the dial
>full condom hour hand

>>18714919
How do I get exact fee? Seller told me its about 30 extra dollars but hes willing to come down on price. That aside any other concerns?

>>18714917
>Should I be concerned?
Seller account since 1999, you're probably fine
>>18714919
none of this happens, I've been buying shit from China like crazy the last couple years. this is FUD from goyslop "news" articles

>>18714920
Name me a better watch under 40mm case size, this one is 38 (im a wristlet)
>>18714922
Does 30 dollar fee sound about right for the import?

>>18714924
>Does 30 dollar fee sound about right for the import?
Based on the cost of the watch, yeah, that sounds about right, maybe a touch high.

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>>18714924
>name me a better watch
Sub-37. 37 mm.

>>18714924
>Name me a better watch under 40mm case size, this one is 38 (im a wristlet)
What's your budget and what style watch are you looking for?

>>18714926
I really wish these had a date and white markers. This yellow fake patina bullshit is really fucking tired.

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>>18714926
Looks cool how much is that? Model?
>>18714927
Under 500, I want another diver watch (green) i have that same watch but blue and would like a green diver

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>>18714716
The 23mm x 30mm case with a 16mm to 20mm strap. Rudolf Nureyev's strap in pic related is probably 18mm if I had to guess.

>>18714756
I am definitely still here but I just lurk mostly.

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>>18714930
They have several models, you know. Also, these threads already faced this same discussion at least a dozen times: there were Rolex Submariners in the past which had yellow lume right from the very beginning, fresh new. That is not “fake patina”. The watch company decides what color to assign to it. Go browse the archive before replying.

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>>18714920
>full condom hour hand

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>>18714932
Squale Sub-37, I told you. 1650 euros.

>>18714933
I had a Tank LC from the 1970s in the classic 23x30 size and it took a 17mm strap.
The larger 25x33 size took a 19mm strap.

>>18714935
Discontinued, I like the style and fit i already have the blue faced version.
>>18714937
Way out of my budget

>>18714931
>kofe time
love your work

>>18714941
$300 for a San Martin

What a time to be alive

>>18714941
Are these any good?

>>18714946
It’s chinkshit, draw your conclusions.

>>18714934
>They have several models
Not for that model they don't
>yellow lume in the past
Didn't ask. Doesn't mean I have to want it today.

>>18714931
That’s some amazing kofe time you’re having there, pal!

>>18714840
>"I've been found out"
That's why

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>>18714943
If you like the sub-37 take a look at the Montauk on longislandwatch.com(it's a store exclusive for them.) It's half the price and has 4 different (and better) dial colors.

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Do you guys like my sports watch?

You retards come off as so ridiculous with all of these concurrent watch threads, competing with each other for attention.

I don't understand why the mods haven't done a mass ban of the recurring offenders, or just ban watch threads all together.

>>18714961
one or more of the offenders is a mod and/or janny. So that's why.

>>18714952
I bet you also think the clothes you order on Temu and AliExpress are good quality.

>>18714961
> I don't understand why the mods haven't done a mass ban of the recurring offenders, or just ban watch threads all together.
BECAUSE THE ONLY MOD OF THIS BOARD IS THE FOREMOST WATCHFAG SUBHUMAN, HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED TO REPEAT THIS?

>>18714981
Why are you yelling?

>>18714993
I’m emotionally immature.
Like a toddler in a department store, you will know my dissatisfaction.

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Looking to add a piece to my collection that is 10/10 sleezecore, anything better than this?

>>18714937
>divers with suits
I just don't like it, looks a bit weird to me.

>>18715002
Two-tone Datejust will do the trick. Nice touch with the palm motif dial.

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>>18715002
it's gotta be the yellow gold one. THIS is the one that screams "used car lot that's actually a money laundering business for the mob."

>>18714993
>>18714994
Because these threads deserve violence.

>>18715003
No one asked your opinion

>>18715013
I know, I volunteered it.

>>18715016
That’s a terrible misuse of the verb ‘volunteer’

>>18715019
I volunteered that as well.

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>>18715019
It's defensible.

Good evening /fa gs
I only want one (1) watch, that I can wear with anything and do anything, everyday. A “gada” watch if you will. Has to be white dial. Gimme your recommendations

>>18715023
Rolex Datejust, ref. 16234. 36mm, steel, fluted WG bezel, Jubilee bracelet. White stick dial.

>>18715021
Bro, do you seriously feed 4chan posts to AI? You’re mentally ill.

my most beautiful watch is a junghans meister calendar and im a special boy more special than any of you

>>18715023
Sinn 104 St Sa I

>>18715030
Unironically the same thing I’d say.

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>>18715031
You're getting off easy this time

I bought a chink shitter off aliexpress because I felt it was uniquely Chinese but not the fucking 15mm tall Seagull chrono. I will post it when it gets here.

>the machine programmed to validate every concern I express to it agrees with me
Well, damn, can't argue with that.

You mfers made me look at watches now I want a 1940’s brietling

Slept with my watxh on again

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>>18715110
You guys don’t like old stuff?

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>>18715116

>>18715116

>>18715116
Sexo

>>18715120
>Anti-Choc
Bit racist, innit?

>>18715201
Looks like Woody Harrelson.

>>18715048
Using AI for anything like that is pathetic. People like you who defer to it to spell out the meanings of conversations are hopeless.

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>>18715211
Claude agreed with me. Thread closed.

>>18715114
I've stopped doing this since I started getting much more expensive watches just on the off chance that I swing my arm out and smadh it on the night stand or roll on it and pop the crystal. But it's not like I've ever done that before. There's no real reason it wouldn't be safe.

>>18715201
Why is the strap ribbed?

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Silber time.

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>>18715219
You now look even more pathetic. Now ask for another "comeback", incel.

>>18715226
Kill yourself, Nazi scum.

>>18715228
avaturdfaggot

>>18715224
yeah that makes sense why you'd take the more expensive ones off.

>>18715226
You might want to work with the lighting a bit. Your pics have potential.

>>18714832
Great looking watch

>>18715116
>>18715120

So Breitling used to be good it seems

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>>18715226
Basado

>>18715228
imagine hating the good guys

>>18715226
How can Credor compete with this?

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>>18715226
kofe time
a nice mid afternoon loaf

I just click on the little triangle and then i click on 'hide the post'. That's it! lol! And that poop obsessed freak is POWERLESS to stop me. Just a few clicks and the post is hidden. ahahahahaah

>>18715197
Existing while not being a gorilla is racist now

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>>18715257
phew, i was worried i missed the daily post
my day isn't complete until i witness greatness
pic unrel

>>18715247
Tbh since these threads I was curious so I scrolled around the luxury watch makers current line ups and they all seem like a poop

>>18715225
For my pleasure

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Sexo

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Imagine restoring this for your wifey

>>18715285
>they can't even put their own company name properly on the dial
Embarrassing for SHEITLING

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I live in Japan. Saw these at my local Family Mart a couple weeks ago but passed on 'em cause they looked kinda bunk, but now I guess they're being hyped so I regret missing out. Asked the manager and he said they're sold out but if they get a restock he said he'll hold one for me.

>>18715288
If they use a Japanese quartz movement they probably keep time very well, and this is classic Bauhaus design with no embellishments and good proportions. If it said Braun on the dial these would be $80

>>18715283
Beauty

>>18715288
>I didn't want to buy something until I found out that a lot of other people want to buy it
why are you a sheep

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cop or not?

>>18715310
Blacked out watches are fucking queer.

>>18715312
>>18715310
nah blacked out watches are the least queer desu.
that one looks eerie, like the ocean at night. kinda cool.

>Shitizen

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It’s here. Remember a few threads ago when these were a topic?
Several things are wrong here. As you see there’s a strap on the watch but a tool that is unrelated. And notice I can’t wind or set it because the strap is in the way of the crown.
Really a design flaw. Legibility is also going to be an issue. Sucks because this is my new daily.
Guess I need to learn to live with it.

>>18715320
Serial killer watch

>>18715318
Yes, OP’s quartz watch is quite annoying at this point.

>>18715310
The case being bigger than the bezel makes it suck in my eyes.

>>18715320
>>18715321
No way that's the actual Cartier one and not a knockoff. You spent 80,000 on it but don't know how to wind it or read the clock?

>>18715265
No greatness from IWC, that’s for sure.

>>18715251
How edgy! The Nazis were the GOOD guys. lol

>>18715233
?

>>18715320
AYO DIS NIGGA WATCH IS A BATHROOM SCALE
FATASS NIGGA

>>18715329
We have regulars in this thread who unironically think Stepan Bandera and Adolf Hitler were heroes of europe.

>>18715326
Yep. 80 grand. I’m not poor.

>>18715332
No they don’t. No one is genuinely that stupid.

>>18715333
I don't believe that at all because you don't even know how to use the thing.

>>18715320
this shit makes me uncomfortable because people will be like 'yeah that is 80k i just spent' and it looks like cheap russian shit from some commie bunker filled with dysgenic mutants that were constantly drunk and beating their children

cna someone fucken explani to me why that is 80k and why someone paid that

it looks like a fucken widget from some nuclear reactor like chernobyl

like you just fucken ripped it off some gizmo from that russky fucken nuke reactor

>>18715340
It's not, in one of the previous threads he said he was ordering it from aliexpress expecting it to not actually be a jump hour watch. He posted the aliexpress listing. I don't remember the price.

>>18715335
Of course I know how to wind and set a watch. It's you who's retarded because you can't read. I can't GET to the crown without removing the strap. It's a design flaw. I know HOW to remove the strap. I find it comical that they included a cheap link removal tool for a bracelet that's not on the watch.

How is everyone here besides me so terrible at reading comprehension?

>>18715340
Wow. Retarded.

>>18715338
I'm definitely not a watch guy so don' take my word for it but I don't think that's the real one. Aren't the good Cartiers all gold and stuff?

>>18715341
This. It was $24 or $26 and I'm sure it's not a jump hour at that price. I think the hour just slowly turns. I'm probably not even going to remove the strap and set it. Ever.
It's just a novelty for the shitters box. That marks 106 watches in 6 months for anyone keeping score at home.

>>18715338
You have to stop taking people at their word that they buy $80,000 watches here.
No one buys anything. I do, but no one gives a fuck because they only care about $80,000 watches that no one ever actually buys. haha

>>18715345
Too many

>>18715347
I have no idea how to tell reals from fakes since I am not that in to watches. That one dude posted a Royal Oak collection last thread and I am pretty sure they were replicas.

>>18715334
>>18715332
>>18715228
how's that central banking and lgbtq+BBQ DEI and minorities flooding your countries working out for you guys?

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You guys weren't seriously questioning whether or not that watch was real, right?

Should I get a superclone? Was thinking of just a simple no date sub.

>>18715350
Someone who hates Bandera wouldn't support that stuff either. I just dislike actual NeoNazis and warmongers.

>>18715309
People with "impressive and expensive" watches are filled with anxiety over what people might think?
LOL, and people on this board are afraid of NOT having an expensive enough watch.

No one in the world cares or judges. Imagine all the fantastic $200-$300 Aliexpress watches that could be enjoyed by this community were it not for the false notion that out there is the same as in here, and that anyone would ever ridicule another person in public for their watch.

Unbelievable.

>>18715354
>buys the classic menswear staple, the Cartier Tank knockoff for 20 dollars
>defends AliExpress

Serious question. Are you Doug Devious? He's the only regular user here who loves that garbage website. The fact you bought a knockoff one of the iconic Cartier watches which are iconic in menswear circles also leans towards that.

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>>18715350
Conspiratard.
No one immigrates anywhere and gays don't actually exist. It's all part of the international jewish plan to destroy the culture of whiteness. For reasons as yet unspecified.

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Dick Dastardly, is that you?

>>18715352
Why would you do that? Rolex is gay. You're proving you care about the name. You could get an homage. Even if anyone actually cared and judged, the homage would be less embarrassing. No one believes you could actually afford a real one.

>>18715351
Haha, you respect and appreciate that stupid fucking design.

>>18715347
Thank you. That clarifies things for me.

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Should i get this brown one instead of green?>>18714917

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Steel, sapphire, Citizen 8215 movement.
$78
There is no downside or compromise. This blows any Seiko under $700 out of the water.

>>18715377
It definitely looks like a 70 dollar watch

>>18715377
Do people not feel embarrassed wearing these obvious knock offs?

I buy a lot of chink watches but the only "homage" I have is of the Seiko Willard, because they discontinued it a million years ago.

>>18715381
I wonder this myself, it's such a tacky thing to do. At least if you're into watches enough to know it's a """homage""", if you had no idea and just liked the design then it's the same as wearing any other cheap fashion shitter imo.

>>18715387
Is a poor not entitled to enjoying watches?

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>>18715377

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I took the strap off and set it. It’s gotta be quartz, which means it’s been using battery since before shipping. And it’s not a jump hour as I’d suspected would be the case.
So I guess mission accomplished. I bought it to find out what it was. My review will enlighten the other customers so they can skip it.

>>18715393
But no one here will ever buy that, poser.

>>18715395
We're amazed you spent 80k USD on that.
thank you for the images

>>18715396
it's okay to spend money on watches. I'm personally on my sixteenth AYYPEE.

Hehehehehe

>>18715388
Poors can buy and do what they want and they're probably not concerned with what I find tacky. I just personally would never buy a blatant knock off of anything like that for that reason. Why not just get at least a somewhat original design instead?

>>18715399
It is somewhat original. Do you not see all the differences? No grid. No screws.

>>18715397
>>18715398
Please stop. I am having a laughing fit.

Just spent 2000 dollars on a new watch I've been eyeing for a while. No, I'm not going to tell you what it is. You're just going to call it a shitter

>>18715377
Does the bezel turn?

>>18715401
:) Laughter is good.

>>18715402
I, personally, will refrain from calling it a shitter. I prefer to dump on Rolex (R.R. IYKYK).
My Watch of Preference (WoP) is, currently, an 800 dollar watch which happens to sit perfectly on my wrist. I slept wearing it on my wrist last night. Another beautiful sleep.

Would you like to describe to us your new watch, without giving away what it is, of course?

>>18715361
Not really? But it's obvious that thing this anon posted ain't it.

>>18715402
Try me.

I know an 80k USD watch when I see it, and I can guarantee you, without any doubt, that the watch anon purchased and recently posted images of is indeed an 80k USD watch. Most people don't have the eyes to know an 80k USD watch when they see it.

>>18715400
Not original enough for me to not call it tacky knock off though.

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>>18715411
>>18715406
>Would you like to describe to us your new watch, without giving away what it is, of course?
The most I'm willing to show at this point in time is a 150x150 pixel square

>>18715402
You're starting to get it. They call everything shitter. Even their precious luxury brands. Within that group of snobs are subsets of different snobs. Very few of them own any of the watches they promote and defend.
This place is a joke. But you shouldn't let it affect you or what you post. Don't let these fucking cunts win. Don't let them get to you. They do not matter. They are not real people. These are not their true opinions anyway.

>>18715417
Hmmm, that gentle curve as it expands to the top of the watch, the subtle light blue emerging from the deeper darker blue, the bright white detailing of the numerals this is something special.

>>18715356
How is it a conspiracy when it’s all around you all the time?

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>>18715416
By that rationale you're left out of a lot of Tudor and Longines and all the others which all copy each other albeit at a higher level.

Don't see any conflict with your thinking though, do you? I do. You're a hypocrite.
It's sad that you covet a watch but have such solemn respect for its perceived "originality" that you just accept you can never wear it.

A man must have a code. No matter how retarded it seems to the rational minded among us.

>>18715420
It's not the problem of the sane community that we don't see what you do through your hatred and disinformation lenses.

>>18714779
Yes, I like the design on this one. There's also a silver steel version.
>>18714787
I bought it for less than $50 a year ago. It was on sale. As a reissue, Timex didn't upgrade the lcd contrast and night light, and both are still weak. But the nostalgia factor hits the spot.
>>18714795
Nice, I didn't know there are resin versions.

>>18715417
Is that one o them farers?

>>18715421
>By that rationale you're left out of a lot of Tudor and Longines and all the others which all copy each other albeit at a higher level.
Yes.
>Don't see any conflict with your thinking though, do you? I do. You're a hypocrite.
How?
>It's sad that you covet a watch but have such solemn respect for its perceived "originality" that you just accept you can never wear it.
I do? Which watch would that be?
And if that were true, how would that be sad? I think that Ferraris are cool, but I'm not going to buy a honda civic and mod the body to look like one because that would be really gay and pathetic. Is that sad too?

>>18715428
You have a very set way of thinking and no amount of logic will change that. You aren't alone in being that specific type of idiotic snob. Or rather playing that character here on this forum.

>>18715428
A hypocrite because you don't call out expensive homages. You wouldn't insult them the same way as a Chinese one even though it's the same practice.

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>>18715417
Farer Haley

>>18715434
>>18715417
>>18715423
I've been strongly considering getting one of these, how do you like it? Is it good? What is the lume like in person?

>>18715430
>You have a very set way of thinking
Pretty much.
>logic
We're talking about buying jewelry. It's an emotional and irrational thing. Telling me that I'm not being "logical" in my irrational and emotional feelings about whether jewelry is cool or not doesn't mean anything to me lol.
>idiotic snob
lol sorry if I hurt your feelings. I even told you that "poors can buy and do what they want and they're probably not concerned with what I find tacky".
>>18715431
I would though. I think longines and frederique constant are incredibly overrated shitter brands. Recently I called out the christopher ward explorer II knock off and longines generic diver clone #10000

>>18715437
Longjeans has strange design quirks like the Hydroconquest has a bizarre diamond hour hand, like a half-assed snowflake, so at night you have to track the hour with a tiny diamond. The circular cardinal hours are also baffling on a watch that is otherwise nothing but angles. What's the logic?
The ones with numbers at the cardinals is even worse because the 6, 9, and 12 are big as all fuck and it makes the tiny date window look stupid.
Their non-divers basically look like chink watches too. I'm not opposed to chink watches. I think the chinks have gotten scary good at finishing, materials quality, and QC these days. That only makes the weaknesses of Longines stand out more.

>>18715436
What leads you to believe that person owns that watch? Are you paying ANY attention here?

>>18715441
I don't know why you'd lie about buying a Farer.

>>18715434
>>18715426
Nice guess, nailed it
>>18715436
I'll let you know when it arrives. I finally ordered it today after spending most of the year deciding on a new watch to commemorate a couple milestones I hit this year. Was also close to spending the money on another guitar or new telescope, but I have enough of those and have never really splurged on a watch before. It's hard to justify spending that much on a watch when I have so many other hobbies.

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Kofe time.

>shitizen

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This sucks. Big gap there. But it chugs along. Can’t believe I spent $80,000.00 and this is my daily now. Oof

>>18715445
Because he hasn't bought it yet and never said he did. He's considering it.

>>18715473
It would appear that the hour is "1, or maybe 11 with the first digit hidden" lmao

>>18715315
Coffee moment

>>18715326
>Cartier coming in a random blue box with a plastic pin-pusher tool when it's on a leather strap
You don't say.

So this is the famous "/wt/" huh... the one you hear about all over The Chan from /a/ to /x/. The one general that has saved /fa/ as a whole and made this gay shithole board worth a visit or two.

I was promised:
>Japanese Bitches with fat titties
>I was promised rich lawyers with collection far exceeding millions of dollars
>Good coffee talk
>High quality professional images that would make anyone at /p/ reconsider if he's good at what he does
>A huge collection of pristine Weekdaters
>A highly knowledgeable Omega connoisseur
>Lots of Gold and Silver
>Drunk posts on Friday nights
>Qualified watchmakers going into autistic depth
>Rolexes, Grand Seikos, Mosers, Omegas, Breguets, Credors, F.P.'s--
>Wristshots on top of Japanese booty, sakura trees in the background, inside expensive cars, wristhots in Dubai, in Tokyo--
Hell, I was even promised Guns and people wearing their watches on their dicks. I was also promised Cat posting and even someone posting his stool next to high quality swiss made watches.

What I got instead is:
>Chinese watches
>300 posts, 12 images
>30% of the posts deleted
>People calling each other poor

Words can not describe how disappointed I am. I guess rumors did get the better of me, I came with zero expectations and yet I am leaving with disgust and being mad at myself for falling for those said rumors. I am not even going to waste time calling you "people" names, because you're not even worth that much.

>>18715315
is it really as light as people say?

>>18714879
I thought about this claim for a minute and I think you're right. In all seriousness, think about it. Why does this watch specifically matter? It's the first TUDOR that pops into mind whenever the brand is mentioned. TUDOR has been known for 100 years by now of being the quite Literal entry point to Luxury watches. It's the gatekeeper, the price point-decider on what is considered Luxury. That's a huge thing, no matter how you look at it.
Anything below TUDOR is considered "casual" and entry level, everything TUDOR and after is considered Luxury.
-Not Longines
-Not Oris
-Not Nomos
-Not Sinn
-Not Christopher Ward
-Not TAG Heuer
Hell, not even Grand Seiko, Omega or Breitling- THE gatekeeper to LUXURY is TUDOR, it has been established since 1926 and it will forever remain that way. If there's not Tudor, there's nothing keeping the floodgates closed and in check.
Everyone (everyone) who's honest with you and knows about watches, if you ask them:
>"Genuinely, what's the One ONE AND DONE watch for someone who simply wants a nice piece for Every single occasion but also wants to wear one everyday and Never have to think about watches again?"
if you've been slightly into watches for more than a week, you will answer
>"TUDOR"
in Caps, firm and unshaken. Because it is the only answer. Not the only Correct answer, but the Only answer in general.

>>18715473
that 80k USD watch is now your daily watch and even though there is a big gap there you just have to keep wearing it because that's your 80k USD daily watch now.

>>18715482
It's displaying the time 10:44 p.m. there. You only get to see what hour it is roughly half the time I guess. I'll learn everything soon as it is my daily watch that I paid the eighty-thou for.

>>18715499
>Japanese Bitches with fat titties
Oh those were the times..
I miss whoreanon bros..

>>18715503
It's damned light. And it has a cool looking rotor that spins easily with a barely discernible hum just the way I like. And the dial kind of looks like an overgrown lawn. I got it sized up just right and I love wearing it. But the pin & collar link system sucks and I will avoid watches with that in the future.

>>18715515
>You only get to see what hour it is roughly half the time I guess
lmao

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I found the perfect watch. It's beautiful.

>>18715513
I have created at least a couple of reused shitposts for this general already and I really hope >80K (obviously fake) Guichet is one of them. lol

>>18715522
Yeah, calling it a jump hour was shady salesmanship in my view. But $26. I'm very rarely satisfied with anything at that price and I know that going in. And even in that other thread when I ordered it I predicted it would be a gradual turning wheel.
Though my other little Ciloa Cartier homage is pretty cool for $20. Of course I saw reviews recommending it which is why I bought it in the first place. It looks a lot better than the bathroom scale tank.

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>>18715523
Is your name Esther, Pearl, or Gladys? How about Edith?

>>18715529
You unironically need to be a very poorly passing Troon to appreciate that watch.

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>>18715527
I meant Sanda

>>18715535
Those are grandmother names. Nothing to do with trannies. Take a break from the internet, pal.

>>18715524
it is good fun

>>18715541
I think that was the joke, anon.

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I don't think this is getting any cheaper, the only seller that sold it for cheaper (£300) sold out within a day and they've said they can't get any more stock. I guess I need to pay an insane amount of money for a digital watch with mineral crystal/hollow end links/pressed clasp, but I really want it.

>>18715596
I always wondered if anyone bought that thing. I guess you're the guy. Hahaha

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I fucking hate my $80K daily. What time is it? I can’t see that with the naked eye from arm’s length.

>>18715705
but that's ok, because a quality piece like that is worth pulling out the loupe for, right?

>>18714832
Based Tissot enjoyer

>>18715709
I can't just carry one around on a necklace whenever I wear the watch, which is daily. I could get a monoclized version and pair it with a top hat and look like Mr. Peanut.
That's not a good look for me. But it would kind of match the watch. Though I see Mr. Peanut as a pocketwatch kind of guy.

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a24322 breitling
does this look genuine? does it yellow over time?

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Toilet anon should buy one of the Breguet porcelain dial watches to celebrate the way he be punishing the porcelain 2 to 3 times daily.

How is the new toilet working out? Pretty good?

>>18715772
I usually report your posts, but on the Shitizen thread, it's ok.

>>18715793
I thought this was a Timex Easy Reader until I clicked on the thumbnail

>>18715793
it's aight. part of the joy with my old one is it wouldn't always flush completely and would get clogged. sometimes I would have to use my hands to clear it which was always a delight. the new one can flush cement mixed with trash, it's so powerful. so now one of my joys in life has been taken away from me by the jews yet again (my landlord is the one that did this to me, he wears the funny little hats)
>>18715794
I don't see a difference between a pile of excrement and Le Citizen